Re: Can't open affix or dictionary flies

Am 10.01.2013 20:47, schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
>> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:35:16 +0100
>> From: Oliver Jones<[email protected]>
>>
>> I have trouble getting spellchecking to work with Emacs 24.2.1 and Hunspell 1.3.2 on Windows XP.
>>
>> I have read the help about spelling in the built in manual and searched the internet where I
>> found advice to include these lines to my ~/.emacs.d/init.el file.
>>
>> (setq ispell-dictionary-alist
>>      '((nil ; default
>>         "[a-zäöüßA-ZÄÖÜ]" "[^a-zäöüßA-ZÄÖÜ]" "[']" t
>>         ("-d" "C:\\Dokumente und Einstellungen\\ojones\\Eigene Dateien\\dictionaries\\de_DE_frami" "-i" "utf-8") nil utf-8)
>>        ("english"
>>         "[A-Za-z]" "[^A-Za-z]" "[']" nil
>>         ("-d" "en_GB") nil utf-8)
>>        ("german"
>>         "[a-zäöüßA-ZÄÖÜ]" "[^a-zäöüßA-ZÄÖÜ]" "[']" t
>>         ("-d" "'C:\\Dokumente und Einstellungen\\ojones\\Eigene Dateien\\dictionaries\\de_DE_frami'" "-i" "utf-8") nil utf-8)
>                  ^                                                                                  ^
> Those single quotes inside double quotes look suspicious.  They don't
> belong to the file name.
>
> Also, you don't need "-i" "utf-8" in the list of arguments, since that
> is the default.
>
> Finally, I'd suggest to use dictionary names that are identical to the
> file names, i.e. "de_DE_frami" instead of "german" etc.  Then you
> could simply use nil for all the switches (assuming you install the
> dictionaries in the directory where hunspell expects to find them).
>
>

Hi Eli,

thanks for your help.
I made sure the dictionary and affix files are saved in a place where hunspell finds them (I 
verified that by executing hunspell on the command line). I changed the text in my init.el to:

(setq ispell-dictionary-alist
    '((nil ; default
       "[a-zäöüßA-ZÄÖÜ]" "[^a-zäöüßA-ZÄÖÜ]" "[']" t
       ("-d" "de_DE_frami") nil utf-8)
      ("en_GB"
       "[A-Za-z]" "[^A-Za-z]" "[']" nil
       ("-d" "en_GB") nil utf-8)
      ("de_DE_frami"
       "[a-zäöüßA-ZÄÖÜ]" "[^a-zäöüßA-ZÄÖÜ]" "[']" t
       ("-d" "de_DE_frami") nil utf-8)))
(eval-after-load "ispell"
     (progn
       (setq ispell-dictionary "de_DE_frami"
	    ispell-extra-args '("-a" "-i" "utf-8") ; aspell doesn't understand -i utf-8, hunspell 
needs it
	    ispell-silently-savep t)))
(setq ispell-program-name "C:\\Dokumente und Einstellungen\\ojones\\Eigene 
Dateien\\hunspell-mingw-1.3.2-win32\\bin\\hunspell.exe")

Now when I start ispell by M-x ispell there is no error message and I see an ispell process 
using M-x list-processes:
Process: ispell
Status:  run
Buffer:  --
TTY:     --
Command: C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\...\hunspell.exe -a  -d de_DE_frami -i nil -a -i utf-8

But it dosen't work as far as I can tell. No words are identified as misspelled (I included 
some for testing purpose).
When I turn on flyspell by M-x flyspell-mode there is this error message:
Error in post-command-hook (flyspell-post-command-hook): (error "No data for dictionary 
\"de_DE_frami\", neither in `ispell-local-dictionary-alist' nor in `ispell-dictionary-alist'")

Checking that the variable ispell-dicationary-alist contains what is specified in my init-el 
by typing ispell-dicationary-alist in the scratch buffer and pressing C-j at the end of that 
line, this unexpected text:

(("hebrew" 
"[\340\341\342\343\344\345\346\347\350\351\353\352\354\356\355\360\357\361\362\364\363\367\366\365\370\371\372]" 
"[^\340\341\342\343\344\345\346\347\350\351\353\352\354\356\355\360\357\361\362\364\363\367\366\365\370\371\372]" 
"" nil ("-B") nil cp1255) ("svenska" 
"[A-Za-z\345\344\366\351\340\374\350\346\370\347\305\304\326\311\300\334\310\306\330\307]" 
"[^A-Za-z\345\344\366\351\340\374\350\346\370\347\305\304\326\311\300\334\310\306\330\307]" 
"[']" nil ("-C") "~list" iso-8859-1) ("slovenian" 
"[A-Za-z\301\304\311\315\323\332\324\300\305\245\335\256\251\310\317\253\322\341\344\351\355\363\372\364\340\345\265\375\276\271\350\357\273\362]" 
"[^A-Za-z\301\304\311\315\323\332\324\300\305\245\335\256\251\310\317\253\322\341\344\351\355\363\372\364\340\345\265\375\276\271\350\357\273\362]" 
"" nil ("-B" "-d" "slovenian") nil iso-8859-2) ("slovak" 
"[A-Za-z\301\304\311\315\323\332\324\300\305\245\335\256\251\310\317\253\322\341\344\351\355\363\372\364\340\345\265\375\276\271\350\357\273\362]" 
"[^A-Za-z\301\304\311\315\323\332\324\300\305\245\335\256\251\310\317\253\322\341\344\351\355\363\372\364\340\345\265\375\276\271\350\357\273\362]" 
"" nil ("-B") nil iso-8859-2) ("russianw" 
"[\300\301\302\303\304\305\250\306\307\310\311\312\313\314\315\316\317\320\321\322\323\324\325\326\327\330\331\334\333\332\335\336\337\340\341\342\343\344\345\270\346\347\350\351\352\353\354\355\356\357\360\361\362\363\364\365\366\367\370\371\374\373\372\375\376\377]" 
"[^\300\301\302\303\304\305\250\306\307\310\311\312\313\314\315\316\317\320\321\322\323\324\325\326\327\330\331\334\333\332\335\336\337\340\341\342\343\344\345\270\346\347\350\351\352\353\354\355\356\357\360\361\362\363\364\365\366\367\370\371\374\373\372\375\376\377]" 
"" nil nil nil windows-1251) ("russian" 
"[\341\342\367\347\344\345\263\366\372\351\352\353\354\355\356\357\360\362\363\364\365\346\350\343\376\373\375\370\371\377\374\340\361\301\302\327\307\304\305\243\326\332\311\312\313\314\315\316\317\320\322\323\324\325\306\310\303\336\333\335\330\331\337\334\300\321]" 
"[^\341\342\367\347\344\345\263\366\372\351\352\353\354\355\356\357\360\362\363\364\365\346\350\343\376\373\375\370\371\377\374\340\361\301\302\327\307\304\305\243\326\332\311\312\313\314\315\316\317\320\322\323\324\325\306\310\303\336\333\335\330\331\337\334\300\321]" 
"" nil nil nil koi8-r) ("portugues" 
"[a-zA-Z\301\302\307\311\323\340\341\342\351\352\355\363\343\347\372]" 
"[^a-zA-Z\301\302\307\311\323\340\341\342\351\352\355\363\343\347\372]" "[']" t ("-C") 
"~latin1" iso-8859-1) ("polish" 
"[A-Za-z\241\243\246\254\257\261\263\266\274\277\306\312\321\323\346\352\361\363]" 
"[^A-Za-z\241\243\246\254\257\261\263\266\274\277\306\312\321\323\346\352\361\363]" "[.]" nil 
nil nil iso-8859-2) ("norsk7-tex" "[A-Za-z{}\\'^`]" "[^A-Za-z{}\\'^`]" "[\"]" nil ("-d" 
"norsk") "~plaintex" iso-8859-1) ("norsk" 
"[A-Za-z\305\306\307\310\311\322\324\330\345\346\347\350\351\362\364\370]" 
"[^A-Za-z\305\306\307\310\311\322\324\330\345\346\347\350\351\362\364\370]" "[\"]" nil nil 
"~list" iso-8859-1) ("nederlands8" 
"[A-Za-z\300\301\302\303\304\305\307\310\311\312\313\314\315\316\317\322\323\324\325\326\331\332\333\334\340\341\342\343\344\345\347\350\351\352\353\354\355\356\357\361\362\363\364\365\366\371\372\373\374]" 
"[^A-Za-z\300\301\302\303\304\305\307\310\311\312\313\314\315\316\317\322\323\324\325\326\331\332\333\334\340\341\342\343\344\345\347\350\351\352\353\354\355\356\357\361\362\363\364\365\366\371\372\373\374]" 
"[']" t ("-C") nil iso-8859-1) ("nederlands" 
"[A-Za-z\300\301\302\303\304\305\307\310\311\312\313\314\315\316\317\322\323\324\325\326\331\332\333\334\340\341\342\343\344\345\347\350\351\352\353\354\355\356\357\361\362\363\364\365\366\371\372\373\374]" 
"[^A-Za-z\300\301\302\303\304\305\307\310\311\312\313\314\315\316\317\322\323\324\325\326\331\332\333\334\340\341\342\343\344\345\347\350\351\352\353\354\355\356\357\361\362\363\364\365\366\371\372\373\374]" 
"[']" t ("-C") nil iso-8859-1) ...)

It is unexpected because when I start emacs and check if my init.el was loaded and correctly 
specified ispell-dictionary-alist I get this after ispell-dictionary-alist C-j

((nil "[a-zäöüßA-ZÄÖÜ]" "[^a-zäöüßA-ZÄÖÜ]" "[']" t ("-d" "de_DE_frami") nil utf-8) ("en_GB" 
"[A-Za-z]" "[^A-Za-z]" "[']" nil ("-d" "en_GB") nil utf-8) ("de_DE_frami" "[a-zäöüßA-ZÄÖÜ]" 
"[^a-zäöüßA-ZÄÖÜ]" "[']" t ("-d" "de_DE_frami") nil utf-8))

Hope this helps to track the problem down.

Kind regards
Oliver